Proverbs 9:12
If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
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Referenced Verses
- Job 22:2-3 : 2 Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? 3 [Is it] any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or [is it] gain [to him], that thou makest thy ways perfect?
- Job 22:21 : 21 ¶ Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
- Job 35:6-7 : 6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? 7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
- Prov 16:26 : 26 ¶ He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.
- Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
- Ezek 18:20 : 20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
- 2 Pet 3:3-4 : 3 ¶ Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation.
- 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 As also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
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